People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic... Læs mere
N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This... Læs mere
An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a... Læs mere
Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.
The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacamen~o-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to... Læs mere
An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity”... Læs mere
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects,... Læs mere
Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.
Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and... Læs mere
An illuminating re-examination of the Euromissile Crisis of the 1980s, Beyond the Euromissile Crisis broadens our understanding of anti-nuclear activism, highlighting its status as a global phenomenon with implications that extend beyond Europe and the 1987 INF treaty.
In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society,... Læs mere